Hello!

Its been a while since I've last posted, I haven't really had any new restoration work in a long while and work has been taking a lot of my energy. But I did get a few ponies in the mail this week, most of them were very easy wash and style jobs, but I'll have to re-root one whose hair was too frazzled. Once i get the hair in the mail ( I order all my pony hair from this etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/ShimmerLocks) I'll try to take some process photos as I work which might make for a more interesting blog post. For now, here are the ponies post style but pre being dry enough to count as done. I've also added some notes on imperfections I have not fixed, and how I might in the future.

Hidden Treasure:



She has a notch in her ear, I could try to heat this up a bit and gently squish it down to have it be less obvious, or cut it out and fill the area with miliput or a similar moldable epoxy. For now, her hair covers it so I plan on leaving it alone. She also has a few spots that did not come off with soap or a spot clean with acetone. I could try sunfading and I may return to that in the future. Her hoof heart also needs a touch up. For now again I don't feel they are noticeable enough to worry about this minute.

Butterscotch:



Butterscotch really has very few issues, the tinsel in her mane and tail is a bit frazzled, I'm hoping it'll smooth out after styling. If anyone has any tips on how to get tinsel to lay flat again, I would appreciate it!

Denim Blue:



Denim blue was in the best condition of the lot, only really needing a wash. She has some very light pink marks on her face, which I have seen on a few other ponies in my collection, always the white ones which is weird. Sunfading, acetone, and soap don't really seem to do anything to help it at all. Thankfully it's pretty light on little blue here.

Bubblecup:




Oh poor bubblecup, her hair was just too frazzled to keep. I've ordered some hair and i'll be doing a reroot on her soon. Aside from her frizzy mane she was in pretty good shape.

Skywishes:



Skywishes was also in pretty decent condition, she has a slight scuff on one hoof and the ends of her hair were SUPER frazzled, almost like someone tried to use a flat iron on it or something. Rather than do a full reroot I decided to just trim the end bits off and style her with a slightly shorter mane. As much as I'd like to do a full reroot it is pretty expensive and time consuming so I try to only do them if completely necessary. Maybe it will be a project for the future.

All in all I think it was a pretty easy lot this time, and I had fun cleaning them up for display. I recently bought a light box so soon I'll have nicer photos on here, and I'll be able to take my own photos for ponies I own on my site! If it works out well I'll look into getting a larger one for dolls and playsets in the future. I'll pop in tomorrow and post an update showing them all dry & done, plus a new shot of my pony shelves on the site (if I can find enough space to fit them all LOL)

Hello!!!!! I finished work on the two ponies I had to order more colors for, Star Catcher and Ribbon Wishes! Here they both are all done:







I left the pink tinsel out of my Star Catcher because I think she looks way better without it. As for Ribbon Wishes, I don't love her original color scheme but I wanted to stay true to it anyway (though I could have picked a darker blue oops!)

In other news I finally finished 3 out of 4 of my custom Furbies! Here they are:

Shadow (the hedgehog ofc)



Heavy Machinery



and Zamboni



Finally, I got one more G1 pony since my last post! Cherries Jubilee! Here she is:



In other news I also got shelves set up for all my dolls and ponies! Here is a look at my collection now that it can all be displayed! I still need stands for some of them, but I'm so happy with how it all looks!





And my G1 shelf:

Hello!! Now that I've caught up on my pony backlog, naturally it's time to get more!! x3 I recently won a lot of 5 ponies, and they finally came in the mail! Unfortunately they were in much worse condition than i was expecting. pretty much every single one will need a reroot or re-tail. They all needed spot cleaning for paint marks and one needed a sunfade and oxi-clean bath. I'm waiting to order all the hair I'll need, but i got them all cleaned and in parts. I also got a Starcatcher with a cut tail and WOW it was tough getting her apart, but I did it with no damage to the wings so yay!


There was one in the set that just needed a tail washer replace, a clean, and a style so she's all done! Here's a photo:


Finally, right after my last post I finished up my Precious Gem! I am SO proud of how she came out, I think I got really close to the original look. It's funny that the 2nd pony I ever got ended up taking me the longest to finish x3


As a bonus, here is a photo of the new G1 ponies I got!!!

Hello!!! Last night I started re-rooting my G3 Precious Gem! I only picked one color right though, its so hard to tell hair shades online :/ Thankfully it was the bottom color so I was still able to start. Its a little tricky and I got a lot of strands of hair all over the place, but I got the whole blue section done! I had to fill a few of the plugs twice, not sure why. I was using size 5 needles. I feel like size 4 might be better, if that exists? Precious Gem originally had very long hair (mine came to me cut) so I wont be trimming any length.



As for my lovely Emmy, the stink is finally waning. I hope she'll be able to come inside next week. I will definitely be more careful with Bradley/ stockinette dolls in the future, since they are so much harder to clean/ restore. I'll probably do a few more rounds of Lysol as well since she'll be living in my room probably.

I got a few new dolls/ toys since my last post too. Three(!!!) G4 styling ponies, 17 misc ponies (not sure which ones yet) in a lot, a set of Halloween calico critters, a pumpkin palm pal, the cow aurora spudeez plush and the matching Scooby-Doo to my Shaggy happy meal toy!!

Yesterday i got my very first Bradley doll in the mail! I won her for pretty cheap on ebay. Shes in great condition considering shes from 1977! HOWEVER she smells AWFUL! Like stale cigarettes and mothballs. I took 1D10 psychic damage from being within a foot of her. Genuinely awful haunted stink. Possessed by ghost of stink.

So today I set out on a quest to get Lysol, to hopefully cleanse her of this cloud of terrible stink. We took her out back, masked off the face to avoid ruining her beautiful paint, and sprayed her down. So far, it's worked really well! She is outside drying atm and the smell seems to be mostly gone, except for the head unfortunately. My main goal was just to get them smell down enough that she can come air out inside instead of on the porch. I will update tomorrow and see if she's been healed lol

I'll be taking some really nice photos of her for my website once shes un-stinked, and I plan to do the same for any future Bradley dolls I get, since there doesn't seem to be a great database anywhere where I can see who is out there.

The lady in question (1977 Emmy from Bradley):

Hello! Welcome to my blog! This is my very first entry so i kind of want to give a simple rundown of my ideas for blog content, and what I'll be posting about in the future!

I am creating this blog to display on my Neocities page, I currently am tracking my collection & wishlist on there and I'd like to be able to talk about the things I add to it. Currently my collection is mostly Rainbow High and G3 MLP, but i plan to add much more. My website can be found here: https://critterprincetoys.neocities.org

A bit about myself: Online I go by Critter! My pronouns are they/ them, and I am 24. I collect lost of things other than toys, so that may come up in the future. My favorite holiday is Halloween. I also like to craft! I sew, crochet, embroider, cross stick, make jewelry, make miniatures, paint d&d minis, sculpt, and paint. I also like playing video games, I have a beefy PC and a Switch :)

I plan on trying to post weekly on here, either with collection finds or restoration stuff. Hopefully I will be doing enough of that to stay consistent!

Thanks for reading this far if you have! I hope you enjoy my future blog stuff :)